How Kubernetes is becoming a platform for AI
Summary
Kubernetes is fast approaching the point of being ready for the enterprise, according to the Cloud Native Computing Forum (CNCF), and artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the application areas that could benefit from the container orchestration platform.Opening the first KubeCon conference in China, Dan Kohn, executive director of the CNCF, said: “Graduated projects like Kubernetes have crossed the chasm and are ready for early adoption.”This concept is behind the Kubeflow project, which aims to provide a base layer on which workloads for machine learning and AI can be deployed and run.Explaining the use of AI at JD.com, principal architect Yuan Chen described how the the company was running one of the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world.One example of JD.com’s application of AI is the use of a containerised Kubernetes cluster for machine learning to manage product image quality control, identification and categorisation.